TV SERIES
1984 - Live action - 35 mm - 12'
Direction, subject - Bruno Bozzetto
Year of Production - 1984
Lenght - 13 slapstick comedies of 6' each
Film - 16mm, colour - Live action - no dialogue
Cast - Pietro Ghislandi, Oreste Castagna, Giuseppe Cella
Edition - Ugo Micheli
Musics - Franco Godi
The comic silent film of the beginning of the century is here revisited under a modern point of view, giving life to a scene rich in a clownish gesture and facial mime which are underlined as the heart of comic spirit. These 13 "pieces" whose titles are:
•Ciclista, Alcool, Pescatori, Cocktail, Parking, Pic Nic, Lapecheronza, Photo, Fresbee Bar, Smack, Il Sasso, Tennis, Il Pollo

Marginally a "straight" police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school, Police Squad occurs in a strange universe where everything is taken literally (when a name "rings a bell" we here bells go off everytime someone mentions it), non sequiturs occur (a mime tries to spell out a ransom note, and Officer Nordberg guesses "Theme From a Summer Place") and sight gags abound (while looking for a corpse, someone wants to know the time and the dead man's hand drops out of a tree).

When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.